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Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts WE ARE... Back! And better than ever. We have over 300 participating artists, 80+ live performances, family fun, and more! The 2022 arts festival is happening July 13 - 17 in downtown State College and PSU.

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Earth Month makes us think of land art, an art movement that gained prominence in the 1960s. An important work of land a...
04/13/2022

Earth Month makes us think of land art, an art movement that gained prominence in the 1960s. An important work of land art is Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, completed in 1970. Spiral Jetty forms a 1,500-foot-long, 15-foot-wide counterclockwise coil of basalt rocks, mud, and salt crystals jutting from the shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. The work is Utah’s official work of Land Art. Who knew that states had official works of land art? Not us!

To mark Earth Month, we remember the National Park posters created by the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Pr...
04/08/2022

To mark Earth Month, we remember the National Park posters created by the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (FAP) during the Great Depression. The project hired thousands of Americans to create murals, posters, stage sets, and other works of art to combat unemployment among artists. Thirteen national parks issued posters created by the FAP. Original posters are rare and highly valued by collectors; reproductions are widely available.

Deadline May 6 for entry to Images
04/02/2022
CPFA issues call for entries

Deadline May 6 for entry to Images

STATE COLLEGE — The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts has issued the call for entries for its popular juried fine art exhibition, “Images 2022.”

On this last day of Women’s History Month, we remember one of our favorite exhibitors, photographer Patricia Wilder of V...
03/31/2022

On this last day of Women’s History Month, we remember one of our favorite exhibitors, photographer Patricia Wilder of Victor, NY, who died in Oct. 2020 after a brief fight with cancer.

Pat’s booth was an oasis of calm on Pollock Road, next to Fiji fraternity. Her beautiful photography—she shot on film—earned her numerous prizes including the Arete Best in Show Award in 2015. Quoting from her obituary: “ Few people ever spotted Pat without a camera and in 1994 she began a long and successful career as a photographer. She shared her particular photographic vision of surfaces and forms as they are found all around us. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes serious, her photography reflected her determination to find, appreciate and share beauty all around her.
We will miss her courage, her kindness, her sense of humor and her Christmas cookies, but we take forward her exhortation to live life to the fullest, to never hold back and always to take time for the important things in life: family, friends, art, poetry and music.”

We are happy to brag on our Board President, Renata Engel. Renata and her husband, Leland, have committed $50,000 to Pen...
03/28/2022

We are happy to brag on our Board President, Renata Engel. Renata and her husband, Leland, have committed $50,000 to Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus in coordination with the Open Doors Scholarship Program.

The Renata (King) and Leland Engel Open Doors Scholarship will benefit students enrolled in the Open Doors Scholarship family of programs.

Renata and Leland met at Penn State Fayette and are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary this year.

On this last Friday in Women’s History Month we celebrate Emily Muir (1903-2004)—painter, architect, philanthropist, and...
03/25/2022

On this last Friday in Women’s History Month we celebrate Emily Muir (1903-2004)—painter, architect, philanthropist, and the first woman to serve on the Commission on Fine Arts, the federal agency charged with advising the President, Congress, and Washington DC government on matters of design. The seven-member Commission reviews designs proposed for memorials, coins, medals, and new or renovated government buildings, as well as privately owned properties in certain areas of Washington.

Muir primarily worked in oils, but occasionally produced sculpture, and many works in watercolor. She was instrumental in helping the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts location Deer Isle, and designed over 40 homes there.

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Friday 10am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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Triple A Blues Band | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Triple A Blues Band | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Jay Vonada | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Jay Vonada | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

The River Drivers | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
The River Drivers | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Natascha and the Spy Boys | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Natascha and the Spy Boys | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

JT & the Denicats | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
JT & the Denicats | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Ramalama | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Ramalama | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Kristi Jean and Her Ne’er Do Wells | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Kristi Jean and Her Ne’er Do Wells | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Below Centre | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Below Centre | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Tussey Mountain Moonshiners | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Tussey Mountain Moonshiners | Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Test Stream of Festival of the Arts 2021
Test Stream of Festival of the Arts 2021

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I got my bracelets. Thanks, Rick! Happy to have had a chance to participate in the virtual festival. Hope to be at a real event in the future.
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I wish that you could bring Infinity Art Glass Studio & Gallery here to ArtsFest. Scott's work is amazing, breathtaking!
Riding my bike this Memorial Day weekend wearing my vintage 1992 CPFA t-shirt design, designed by my mom, Anni Matsick, and vintage CPFA ball cap. A great way to enjoy a nice sunny day. #ArtsFestTshirtTuesdays
A few weeks late, but just wanted to share this beautiful shirt from the 1981 Arts Fest Race. Our model would also like you to know she ran the first 5 races too :) #ArtsFestTShirtTuesdays
A couple weeks late, but just wanted to share this beautiful Arts Fest Race t-shirt from 1981. Our model would like you to know that she participated in the first five races as well :) #ArtsFestTShirtTuesdays